Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Undo assignment on iodev registration failure

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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 1 potential issue(s) to consider:

Pre-existing issues:
- [High] Incomplete rollback in `vgic_register_all_redist_iodevs` fails to clear `base_addr`, permanently breaking rolled-back vCPUs on retry.
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--- Patch [1]: [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Undo assignment on iodev registration failure ---
commit 1ddcb102c04536e66942920259e184122195f9ff
Author: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>

KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Undo assignment on iodev registration failure

This commit introduces vgic_unassign_redist_iodev() to clear rdreg and base_addr
when kvm_io_bus_register_dev() fails during redistributor iodev registration.
This prevents reusing a slot that remains assigned to a vCPU and fixes the
state leak for the current failing vCPU.

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> index 5913a20d83019..c75caadbd1d3c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> @@ -766,6 +766,18 @@ unsigned int vgic_v3_init_dist_iodev(struct vgic_io_device *dev)
[ ... ]
> @@ -818,16 +830,17 @@ int vgic_register_redist_iodev(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
[ ... ]
>  	ret = kvm_io_bus_register_dev(kvm, KVM_MMIO_BUS, rd_base,
>  				      2 * SZ_64K, &rd_dev->dev);
>  	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> +		vgic_unassign_redist_iodev(vcpu);

[Severity: High]
This is a pre-existing issue, but does the rollback loop in
vgic_register_all_redist_iodevs() also need to use this new unassign helper?

If vgic_register_redist_iodev() fails, the rollback loop in
vgic_register_all_redist_iodevs() handles previously processed vCPUs by calling
vgic_unregister_redist_iodev():

arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c:vgic_register_all_redist_iodevs() {
    ...
	if (ret) {
		/* The current c failed, so iterate over the previous ones. */
		int i;

		for (i = 0; i < c; i++) {
			vcpu = kvm_get_vcpu(kvm, i);
			vgic_unregister_redist_iodev(vcpu);
		}
	}
    ...
}

Because vgic_unregister_redist_iodev() only unregisters the bus device, it
does not clear base_addr or reset rdreg. These rolled-back vCPUs remain
assigned but are removed from the MMIO bus.

If userspace retries the ioctl, vgic_register_redist_iodev() will see that
base_addr is no longer VGIC_ADDR_UNDEF and skip registration.

Will this leave the guest permanently missing MMIO mappings for those
earlier vCPUs, breaking guest execution?

>  
> -	/* Protected by slots_lock */
> -	rdreg->free_index++;
> -	return 0;
> +	return ret;
>  
>  out_unlock:
>  	mutex_unlock(&kvm->arch.config_lock);

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